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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Solitude
Joseph Addison

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Friends and Friendship
Francis Bacon

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Solitude
Francis Bacon

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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
Solitude
Jean De La Bruyere

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In solitude, where we are least alone.
Solitude
Lord Byron

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Letters
Lord Byron

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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude
Robert Cecil

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The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Solitude
Thomas A. Edison

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Solitude
Albert Einstein

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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Solitude
Albert Einstein

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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Solitude
George Herbert

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Solitude
Aldous Huxley

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Solitude is un-American.
Solitude
Erica Jong

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O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
Solitude
John Keats

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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Solitude
Omar Khayyam

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
Solitude
Milan Kundera

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Solitude
Walter Savage Landor

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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
Solitude
James Russell Lowell

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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
Solitude
William Mathews

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Solitude begets whimsies.
Solitude
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Cities and City Life
Kathleen Norris

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